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- 1559-1635 (The copy in STA 1/3 dates the Elizabethan added statute 1559.) (Creation)
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1 volume In a 20th century calf binding by Gray, Cambridge, 13 x 8 inches, including new endpapers; same as STA 1/1. parchment
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Contains: a table of contents; a copy of Bishop West's Statutes [of 1517], as revised by the Royal Visitors of 1549-50, with a new statute added by the Visitors of 1559-60 (at fol. 14 verso, with Visitors' signatures); and the interpretation of the Statute "De Numero Sociorum" by King Charles I, 1635.
West's statutes are written in a 16th century hand, with an elaborate capital at fol. 1. There are a few marginal notes in a 17th century hand.
The added statute is signed at the foot by five of the Visitors: William Byll., Walter Haddon, William Mey, Robert Horn and Ja. Pilkinton. It is followed (fol. 15 recto) by the notarial mark and statement of Anthony Harison certifying the document as a true copy.
The copied royal letter of 1635 is similarly marked by John Scott, notary and registrar of the University.